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Labour Day rip bowl.

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Created by Sparx > 9 months ago, 16 Mar 2012
Sparx
VIC, 734 posts
16 Mar 2012 6:37PM
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A bit of footage from monday. Have been surfing this spot on my shorty in some fairly hectic onshore conditions and have been hanging to attack it on the stand up. Kind of inspired by some of the onshore sessions posted up here of late!
Started light and overcast, finnished up sunny and howling. Action pretty standard as is quality of camera work or lack thereof. Lots of fun, make hay while the sun shines!


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Sparx

Sparx
VIC, 734 posts
16 Mar 2012 6:39PM
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Better quality.....slightly..... in HD
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Sparx

matt18
VIC, 534 posts
16 Mar 2012 7:39PM
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Nice vid sparx

SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
16 Mar 2012 7:41PM
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Good one Sparks , i recon onshore is sometimes better, cleaner faces , and much easier on SUP for take off!!!

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ockanui
VIC, 1314 posts
16 Mar 2012 8:13PM
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Nice surf'n Sparx, I counted about 15 waves you got in about 5 minutes phew no wonder we can't keep up

Sparx
VIC, 734 posts
16 Mar 2012 8:33PM
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Thanks guys
Yep, onshore is sometimes the way to go. If its not too strong and you can still stand and paddle in relative comfort, there's a lot more bumps and ramps and sections to work with, same as on a shorty. MJ, there was about two hours of footage culled down into that three minutes, plenty more face plants in the chop!!
By the way, Rowey says howdie, catch up after next Bass Sup comp. Small world eh!!
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Sparx

Rosscoe
VIC, 505 posts
16 Mar 2012 10:13PM
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Gee the crowd sucks, doesn't it?

supa
NSW, 249 posts
16 Mar 2012 10:16PM
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Looks like a fun wave, good surfing too

Sparx
VIC, 734 posts
16 Mar 2012 11:17PM
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Cant believe the diference an inch makes!!!!
Took my board to local ding fix guru, epoxy wizard and gun shaper in his own right, Rowsa, with a cracked fin box. I had a bit of a whinge about how the board was classic but just wasn't operating in the vertical plain the way I had hoped. He looked at it for about thirty seconds and declared the rear box too far forward. Accompanying pictures show the solution, red tape over front plug, rear plug moved back about an inch. Had run an identical setup previously on the old plugs and just slid all over the place, the more fin I added, the less likely to go vertical. This setup is insane!!! Havent even tried the centre rear fin option Rowsa threw in, maybe when it gets way bigger!!! Oh and Roscoe, the day after was twice as big, offshore and clean, plenty crew out of frame to the left and to the right, four of us on the rip bowl. Short boarder laziness is a stand ups best friend!!






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Sparx

goatman
NSW, 2151 posts
17 Mar 2012 3:04AM
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Go Sparx, the differnence a couple of inches make!!!

RPG226
VIC, 14 posts
19 Mar 2012 6:39PM
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G'day Sparx - you mentioned you have a ding fix guru - epoxy wizard,after a sup session at low tide Pines I need a repair,I'm hoping the guru is based on the sth peninsula

dtm
NSW, 1610 posts
19 Mar 2012 9:11PM
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Cool vid

supvader
VIC, 96 posts
19 Mar 2012 9:18PM
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Great vid, thanks for the info on the fin set up, i have been trying some different things with my fins, what you posted is helpful, thanks.

Sparx
VIC, 734 posts
19 Mar 2012 9:47PM
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RussellGold said...

G'day Sparx - you mentioned you have a ding fix guru - epoxy wizard,after a sup session at low tide Pines I need a repair,I'm hoping the guru is based on the sth peninsula



Howdy Russell
Sent you a PM but reckon your best bet is still to throw it open to the Vicco East Coasters......So come on boys, who fixes your dings!!

caltrano
VIC, 87 posts
19 Mar 2012 10:05PM
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Phil @ trigger bros will sort it out.



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